PhD Projects

This table lists PhD projects in Scottish Literature completed at our member institutions since 2010. For more information about individual projects, search the author or title in theBritish Library’s online directory of doctoral theses. In most cases full-text access is both swift and free of charge. To add items to the list, please do contact us.

Sally Newsome

Seductive and Monstrous Fictions: Discourses of the Orient in Walter Scott’s Waverley novels

University of Aberdeen

2010

Christy Danelle Di Frances

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Elements of Adventure

University of Aberdeen

2011

Anna Fancett

The Exploration of Familial Myths and Motifs in Selected Novels by Jane Austen and Walter Scott

University of Aberdeen

2014

Shane Strachan

Orra though it be: A northeast short story collection with exegesis

University of Aberdeen

2014

Vivienne Dunstan

Reading Habits in Scotland circa 1750-1820

University of Dundee

2010

Keir Elder

James Barke, Cinema and Scottish Urban Modernity

University of Dundee

2012

Linda Tym

Forms of Memory in Late Twentieth- and Twenty-first-century Scottish Fiction